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the season, may, by this time too, be fit for pot- 

 ting; and such of these as are not advanced 

 enough, may be brought and placed along with 

 the new pots of cuttings, in order that they may 

 all share the same treatment and superintend- 

 ence. 



As the cuttings advance in growth, they must 

 be gradually treated with a larger share of air, 

 light, and water, till they are all ready to be 

 parted and placed in the small sized thimble 

 pots ; after which they should receive a little more 

 nursing, till they have fairly taken possession of 

 their new station, and then they go to their des- 

 tined place in the collection. 



It is hardly necessary to give directions for 

 potting off the cuttings after they have struck 

 root. Care in separating them from each other, 

 and preserving to each its own roots as entire as 

 possible, is the chief affair ; and minding to seat 

 them carefully, and not too low in the centre of 

 the pots. 



Many of the strong-growing, spongy kinds of 

 green-house plants maybe readily struck without 



